Abdulkhaliq Sawaya

Abdulkhaliq Sawaya (18 June 1973-14 August 2008) was an Islamic State of Iraq terrorist.

Biography
Abdulkhaliq Sawaya was born on 18 June 1973 in Mosul, Ba'athist Iraq to a Sunni Muslim Arab family. Sawaya was the son of an Iraqi Army colonel, and he was intended for a military career like his father; he was eighteen when he was deployed to Kuwait in 1991 during the Gulf War. After the war's end, Sawaya returned to Iraq and owned an appliance store in Mosul. Sawaya joined the resistance against the United States after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and he was involved in setting up IEDs along roads to target US Marine Corps soldiers. On 14 August 2008, Sawaya was killed when the Marines tracked him down to a garage in Mosul, where he had set up his workshop.